On 11/29/2017, 07:19 PM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

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It's pretty unlikely, but it is an actual defect.

No it is not, those variables will never be set to NULL,
so this can never be triggered.  Walk up the call chain.

If the involved software developers are convinced about the validity
of this pointer:

How do you think about to delete the following condition check
instead in the discussed function implementations?

	if (!ch)
		return;

ACK

thanks,
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js
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